Synobun
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I don't get this. Fallout 3 felt so fake. It's hundreds of years after the war, and people are still living like it happened last week.
Spoiler minor spoilers for Megaton in Fallout 3 :They built a city around a freaking nuclear bomb - and your first big moral choice in the game was: a) defuse the bomb they stupidly built the city around, or b) BLOW THE CITY UP. Are you kidding me? That was so unbelievably dumb. What a slap in the face to the player. That's the first important moral decision? Some guy in a bar says, "psst... you're not from here... can you detonate the nuclear weapon and destroy the city for no freaking reason?" Come on, how stupid can you get?
Not to mention, Fallout 3's map is like Bethesda made a bunch of locations, put a blindfold on, spat the locations out on the map, and connected them all with those awful metro stations. On the other hand, the Mojave felt real. When I was walking down a road in the middle of a desert, I felt like I was really there. That's immersion.
I know, different strokes for different folks, but it just boggles my mind how some people prefer 3 to New Vegas. The ONLY thing 3 does better is having no invisible walls. Everything else about 3 is inferior to New Vegas, imo. And 3 crashed all the damn time, buggy as hell.
I've had more crashes with NV than with Fallout 3.
Spoiler :
The Megaton bomb situation makes sense. There are plenty of people IRL who support bulldozing over things because they think it looks ugly. I mean hell, the dude who organized the detonation is doing it because he desperately suckles on the teat of Tenpenny, a rich guy who sits alone on his balcony ruling over an exclusive club of "rich people only kthx". Is it cheesy? Sure, but so is everything else about Fallout.
No one is playing Fallout for a legitimate moral dilemma that takes into account all factors, situations, and options. Not only would that be impossible but it's not the point as well.
I actually really liked the Metro stations in Fallout 3. Does it make much sense? Nah. But, you know... video games.